MICKLEM, Lionel Offley
| Service Number: | 155 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | St. George Hanover Square, London, England, 5 April 1873 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Pastoralist |
| Died: | Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, 7 February 1952, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 155, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 155, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900. | |
| 10 Aug 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 155, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 477 notes 4th QIB embarked 5 Jul 1901 aboard Britannic returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 5 Aug 1901, disbanded 10 Aug 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Lionel Offley Micklem was born on 5 Apr 1873 at St. George Hanover Square, London, England, a son to Leonard Micklem and Dora Emily Micklem (nee Weguelin). Its unclear when he first came to Australia but he appears in newspaper shipping arrival reports in and out of Brisbane in 1898.
He served with the 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen in the South African (Boer) War between Jun 1900 and Jul 1901. It appears that following his service he returned to England where he married Gytha Constance Bevan on 20 Oct 1903 at Kensington, London and they had two children born 1904 and 1908.
Its unclear when they returned to Australia but newspaper reports have them visiting in 1904 and returning to their cattle station in 1906. In 1927 he applied to the Land Court in North Queensland for renewal of a pastoral lease on a property (believed to be Valley of the Lagoons station) in the Gunnawarra area near Mount Garnet in far north Queensland. it appears he was the leaseholder from 1903 to 1929. They appeared to spend time between England and Australia with a final move back to England after sale of the cattle station in 1929.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 482; Wiki Tree family history profile for Lionel Offley Micklem 1873-1952).
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